Word: heikki
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Risto Heikki Ryti, 67, who became Finnish Prime Minister in 1939, led his country through the disastrous Russo-Finnish War, was elected President in 1940; of cancer; in Helsinki. Russia-hating Risto Ryti brought Finland into World War II on the Axis side (he disavowed Naziism, claimed a "defensive war") when Germany invaded Russia (June 1941), ignored Washington's insistence that Finland stop fighting with Russia. One month later Ryti was pressured out by his own Parliament, in 1946 began serving three years of a ten-year hard-labor sentence for "contributing to Finland's entry into...